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Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Orekhovo-Zuevo)

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Description

The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, also known as St. Nicholas Church (Nikolsky Khram), is a house church attached to the former St. Nicholas Primary School in Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow Oblast. It stands at 2 Savvy Morozova Street (some sources give 2 Shkolny Proezd) and is tied to the history of the Morozov industrialists, who built schools and churches here for the workers of their mills.

History

The St. Nicholas School was founded by Timofei Savvich Morozov in 1864. At first it occupied a wooden house that was later moved to the site of today's V. A. Baryshnikov plant. In 1877 the school received a stone building designed by Moscow architects led by A. S. Kaminsky, and from 1890 it housed the St. Nicholas Primary School.

The school taught the children of factory workers to read and write and gave them a religious and moral upbringing. In 1902, with money from Maria Fyodorovna Morozova, a house church dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was added to the building and consecrated the same year. The altar section was completed in 1907–1908, giving the church its final shape.

In Soviet times the building was converted into School No. 3, and the church space became the school gym.

The transfer of the church to the Russian Orthodox Church was negotiated with the Orekhovo-Zuevo city administration. Meanwhile parish life returned to the former house church, and St. Nicholas Church became active again.

The church today

The rector is Father Pyotr Turya. Services are held, there are catechism courses, and the parish helps people in need. The church runs a Sunday school for children aged 6 to 14, and the St. Nicholas Classical Gymnasium opened here in 2012.

According to the parish website, the church is open daily from 8:00 to 17:00. Check the service schedule on the website or at the church.

Getting there

The church is in Orekhovo-Zuevo, in the former school building at 2 Savvy Morozova Street. You can get there by local public transport or by car, using this address.